Re-issue of the original 1987 album, except for the track "Nietsche", listed on the sleeve but not featured on the CD.

The three poems Havamal, Voluspa and Sigdridfumal are taken from the Edda. The versions used here are based on the translations by W. H. Auden and P. B. Taylor and have been adapted by Freya Aswynn. The poem Wotan has been taken from "Also sprach Zarathustra".

The seven-track album includes a rare recording captured on May the 21st 2004 in Groningen (The Netherlands) during the band's european tour, and 2 unreleased industrial songs. Featuring the "With No Human Intervention" album's line-up.

The "Live in Groningen" has been remastered by Fabban and Emiliano Natali at Fear No One studios, the same studio in which the band recorded "Psychogrotesque" (Season of Mist records) and the new double album "Dirty" (Agonia Records).

Tracks 1, 2, 5, 13, 14, 17, 23, 24 taken from the Abscess/Population Reduction split CD/12" (Tank Crimes).
Tracks 3, 8, 9, 22 taken from the Abscess/Bonesaw split CD/10" (Aphelion Productions).
Track 4 taken from the Abscess/Eat My Fuk split 7" (Rivot Rag Records).
Track 18 was recorded live at the Pound, San Francisco, CA on May 13, 2005.
Tracks 15, 16 were recorded live at Los Angeles Murderfest at the Knitting Factory, Los Angeles, CA on May 9, 2009.
Tracks 7, 10, 11, 12, 21 were recorded live at Maryland Deathfest at Club Sonar, Baltimore, MD on May 24, 2009.
Tracks 6, 19, 20 taken from the September 7, 1999 rehearsal demo (for Tormented).

Quote from label: "After a first release shaping what will be Absolvtion, the band goes on his path with a debut EP that unveiled a heavier music and more mature.
Their sound approach can be compare to notorious acts from the Black/Death scene such as Vassafor Temple Nightside, Pseudogod or Archgoat.

For this new offering, the band worked hard on the production, reinforcing the compositions.
The lyrics deals with the human condition, his report to religion and the desire to rise above the masses and reveal his true nature".

Three-way double cd split in A digipack cd. Quote from label: "Versatility of perception is a revisiting of the early recordings of Filivs Macrocosmi by two Ukrainian projects Absurd Inspiration and Charadriiform. The record is not a cover-up but a well thought-over plunging into the original atmosphere to reinforce the sound palette from various cryptic perspectives. Absurd Inspiration focuses mainly on the occult part, in particular Crowley's "The Book of the Law" concept of love under will, and references to the cult of goddess reflected in early Filivs Macrocosmi art. Charadriiform, on the contrary, makes the original isolationist ambience truly absolute, relating wide open space and the unconscious."

Quote from the label: "Ghanood is new album of Ad Lux Tenebrae played in collaboration with 121 of Closing the Eternity. One more then half of hour long track. 100% organic & synth-free ambient somnolent meditation with strings, bells, drones, bowls, chimes & rainsticks."
Limited to 200 copies.

Ad lux tenebrae (also known as K Svetu T'my) first full-length album. Ad lux tenebrae - well-known masters of deep ritualistic Dark ambient from north of Riphean Mountains. Great powerful sounds from Primeval Ural Woods. To create music they use original musical instruments - bubens, handmade drums, blowing horns, flutes and others instruments made by musicians theyself and have no name. Disk contains two live recorded Rituals, each of them was played in this form only once and never will be repeated. First Ritual is fast, intense, rhythmical and disquiet. Second is appeased tranquil quiet. "The Call of the wild" - this is about one hour of archaic and ritualistic music in total.

Quote from label: "The contemplative piece of drone sound art, will lead the listener to the depths of preconscious. As the microcosm and the macrocosm are equal, so all the secrets and all the wonders are hidden inside of our deep inner self. Stop the fuss of mind and look into your soul. This is the only way to see the Unfading Eternal Flame.
Adriva is the project of Russian ethnographer, artist and musical avant-gardist Denis Shapovalov from Rostov-on-Don. Starting his way in the black metal underground of the early 90s, and after founded one of the first Russian folk pagan band Sunchariot, the artist changed the reference point for drone and experimental music. Unlike the darker and denser paintings of the late Sunchariot, Adriva music is based on the experience of myths and drawing inspiration from archaic beliefs and the culture of the ancients".

Quote from label: "6 anthems of aggressive violence and occult atmosphere at the left-hand-path of dark illumination. A professionally manufactured and diversified album with waves from melodic Black Metal to disharmonious tunes of darkness and chaos."

One of several side-projects to emerge from the Wolvserpent camp, Aelter is the solo effort of Wolvserpent guitarist Blake Green. With Aelter, Blake explores a similar realm of dark majestic sound to Wolvserpent, with his massive downtuned guitar roar and bleak minor key melodies being the common thread between the two projects. But where Wolvserpent blends this chugging Melvins-esque heaviness and haunting slowcore arpeggios with violins, pounding drums, and a propensity for extended hypno-dirges, Aelter dispenses with the drums almost completely and goes for a more cinematic approach using layered keyboards and gorgeous harmonized voices that reminds me of something you would have heard on Beggers Banquet or 4AD being fused to a malevolent black heaviness. Both of the Aelter albums were only released on vinyl in limited editions of a few hundred copies and are close to going out of print completely, but we have now gathered both Dusk Dawn and Follow You Beloved together in a double disc set.

The first Aelter record Dusk Dawn from 2009 from is now out of print on vinyl and featured two side-long tracks. The first half "Dusk" begins much like something you would hear from Wolvserpent, an eerie guitar figure slowly plucked over heavy, rumbling doom metal chords, the dark menacing sound slowly unfolding in a manner similar to newer Earth but with a much more sinister vibe. But then this gloomy dirge starts to transform into something that is not so much like Wolvserpent as lush gauzy synthesizers wash in alongside ethereal choral voices, the sound drifting and uncoiling without the propulsion of drums or any other percussion, just a cloudy black fog of doom-laden darkwave underscored with those heavy rumbling guitars. This sound is utterly gorgeous, like some strange mixture of Earth's bleak ambient heaviness and the dark ethereal downer pop of Clan Of Xymox or some similar darkwave outfit. The second track travels deeper into this lush shadowy ambience, the guitars dropping out for long stretches of time as gorgeous high-end drones and shimmering dream-pop keyboards. The vocals begin to appear way off in the distance, slowly fading inwards as the guitars again materialize with chugging downtuned crunch and somber minor key melodies unwinding overhead. And when the vocals build into a majestic multi-part harmony, this becomes incredibly beautiful, like some drifting dreampop epic descending into darkness, finally combining with a minimal piano melody at the end.

Quote from label: "Bones and echoes of aeons past are buried in desert sands. Sigils carved in stone monoliths of Sumerian ziggurats are still keeping the arcanes of blasphemous sorcery... impure art of those nameless and ancient. At sunset, magician touch the strings to summon the night shadows - then, Ifrits and Genii answer his call, howling their eerie memories... AKRABU, 49 minutes of Folk/Ritual music created by Scorpios (ACHERONTAS, CRIMSON MOON etc), filled by Mesopotamian mysticism - for all the worshippers of NILE/Karl Sanders, MELECHESH and BLOOD OF KINGU... But no distorted guitar sounds here - it's all about ritualistic ambience."

Quote from label: "“Underlight” contains nine tracks that can only be described as darker and more far reaching than all past releases of Akral Necrosis. Unlike “Pandemic Dominion”, the new album no longer presents a narrative concept, but a thematic one, with all songs being related to death.

The new full length has been recorded at Studio 148 by Marius Costache, who also handled the mix and master.

The release of “Underlight” marks a new collaboration between the band and Costin Chioreanu from Twilight13Media. The artist managed to perfectly capture the essence of the new album by creating the perfect artwork for it".

Mystic Nature Black Metal with german lyrics, influences range to folk from Doom
inspired by Henry David Thoreau's novel "Walden", it breathes the spirit of romanticism
An archaic journey into the depths of the forests...

Vamâcârâ Sadhana sophia si based upon the dissolution into chaos and the emancipation ov personnality from every kind ov dogma or ethical concept. It promotes total art ov destruction, liberated from every influence or static ethic. The metaphysical and philosophical thought is the dark thread ov his global concept which takes root from a strong personnal will and a reflexion upon non conditionned expression...
The Word links up around our own act ov deconditioning and poor possibility towards the absolute in which society defines all political or religious values. Moralism is an obstruction to our awakening...

CD edition of the rare vinyl 10”. Besides the covers of the Der Bluharsch tracks both bands did, you will also find the original tracks by Der Blutharsch on this one, making it a very lengthy CD. This album will appeal to both Black/Pagan Metal fans as well as those of DER BLUTHARSCH.

Limited to 999 copies. Black silkscreened print on heavy black paper cover make this an absolute jewel in every collection!

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“Black Metal” term here used as a simplifying definition which the band itself normally would refuse. Amnis Nihili’s music in fact is rather richer of layers and influences than the first minute of their opening track (“Christological Escalation”) would let you imagine: let this quarter of an hour flow in your speakers, perceive it and understand how unique their artistic offering is in the actual panorama.

We can hear dark metal, industrial music, ambient, weird samples… of course all of these perfectly layered onto a solid black metal structure.

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Ancientblood is a satanic Black Metal cult from Brazil, lidered by Lord Mantus (also member of Mysteriis, Darkest Hate Warfront and Lux Ferre), with the main purpose to spread the black metal wrath worldwide, mixing influencies of the old school bands like Venom and Hellhammer, Celtic Frost, Bathory, Burzum and Darkthrone , allied to an anti-human conception.

Quote from label: "Abstract Decomposition" is the new MCD of Malaysian ANGUISH, further expanding their ever evolving death Metal sound that is firmly rooted with the brutal and old school traits of the genre.

Quote from label: ANNTHENNATH is violent anti-human Black Metal and returns with a concept about nothingness : 3 new tracks in the vein of the second demo, "Paeans of Apostasy". The rest of the CD is filled with very rare material : first demo from 2004 and rehearsal tracks from 2002 and 2005. ANNTHENNATH is made of members from ANGMAR, ARPHAXAT, DISKARIAL, FUNERAILLE, SAEL...

Davide Del Col has been working in the specific and uncompromising ritual dark ambient genre since the end of the 90s, this firstly under the moniker of Ornament for a couple of very rare limited editions then as Antikatechon which now represents the highlight of his artistic and stylistic creativity. A first full length album has been published on Silentes Minimal Editions back in 2011, this one provides a very accomplished effort in the realms of hauntingly dark ambient music with a touch of melancholic-spiritual inflected nihilism. Signed on Rage in Eden, "Chrisma Crucifixorum" is an other eloquent and complex release which oscillates between stately gazing drone sequences and original audio treatments, the whole thing surrounded by a sacral aura. 2013 saw the rise of a collaborative effort with the pioneering ethno-noise ambient act Nimh, also from Italy. This musical meeting gave birth to a passionate and typical dark ambient offering. The conceptual-visual background is connected to the visions and powerful painting works of Goya. Davide Del Col presents here his new catchy electronic dark ambient release entitled "Woe is the Reward", welcomed by Rage in Eden Records. A tremendous, entrancing and blasting dark ambient odyssey full of majestic sound sculptures, huge resonances, bleak noises, metallic reverbs and many more. This sonic, soundtracky and "acoustically haunted" ambient symphony will totally enthrall and ravish the listener. Be prepared to this intense sonorous adventure. -- Philippe Blache

Quote from label: "L’esprit des vents, third album from the trilogy started with La Croisée des Vents (2007) and followed by La Cité des Vents (2010), mark the band’s return after 7 years of discographic absence and 10 years of existence. The album is built on a desire of continuity, yet in the same time a will to break with what has been done : a more elaborated sound, an assumed maturity. The subjects are once again local, regional and occitan legends and tales, but also story of famous smugglers or belligerent figures who marked some periods of our country".